TY - BOOK AU - Krishnamoorti,Ramanan AU - Vaia,Richard A ED - ED - American Chemical Society. TI - Polymer nanocomposites: synthesis, characterization, and modeling T2 - ACS symposium series SN - 0841237689 AV - TA418.9.N35 P66 2002 PY - 2002///] CY - Washington, DC PB - American Chemical Society KW - Nanocomposites (Materials) KW - Congresses KW - Polymeric composites N1 - "Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering at the 219th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, March 26-30, 2000."; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Polymer nanocomposites : introduction; Richard A. Vaia, Ramanan Krishnamoorti --; Commercialization of polymer nanocomposites; Jon Collister --; PMMA nanocomposites synthesized by emulsion polymerization; Sumanda Bandyopadhyaya, ALex J. Hsieh, Emmanuel P. Giannelis --; Boron nitride fillers for organic polymer composites; R.T. Paine [and others] --; Surface-initiated anionic polymerization : tethered polymer brushes on silicate flat surfaces; Qungye Zhou [and others] --; Predicting the phase behavior of polymer-clay nanocomposites : the role of end-functionalized chains; Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Anna C. Balazs --; Carbon black structure and associations in filled rubbers; Rex P. Hjelm --; Investigative study of polymer adsorption to smectite clay : polyelectrolytes and sodium montmorillonite; Robert Y. Lochhead, Cheri McConnell Boykin --; Mesoscopic structure of polymer-inorganic nanocomposites; Richard A. Vaia, Derek Lincoln --; Solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy of nylon 6-montmorillonite clay nanocomposites; Rick D. Davis, William L. Jarrett, Lon J. Mathias --; Studies of organically modified clays by scattering techniques; Derek L. Ho, Robert M. Briber, Charles J. Glinka --; Thin film organically modified layered silicate-polymer hybrid materials; R. Limary, P.F. Green --; Influence of layered-silicates on the rheological properties of diblock copolymer nanocomposites; Cynthia A. Mitchell, Ramanan Krishnamoorti --; Dispersion and nucleating effects of clay fillers in nanocomposite polymer films; Vincent Ferreiro [and others] --; Molecular simulations of ultra-confined polymers : polystyrene intercalated in layered-silicates; E. Manias, V. Kuppa --; Coarse-grained simulation study of polymer melt intercalation in layered nanostructures; R.K. Bharadwaj, R.A. Vaia, B.L. Farmer ER -